TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La.

OBITUARIY for DELAHAYE, LEIGHTON    

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from Feb. 10 to Feb. 11, 2014

Died: Monday, Feb. 10, 2014

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DELAHAYE, LEIGHTON  

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Leighton Bernard Delahaye, 87, a resident of Brusly but in the care of Audubon 
Health and Rehab in Thibodaux since 2000, died Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. 

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until funeral time Wednesday at St. John the 
Baptist Catholic Church in Brusly. A Mass of Christian burial will be at noon 
Wednesday at the church, 

with burial in St. John the Baptist Catholic Church cemetery in Brusly. 

He is survived by his brother, Dr. Alfred N. Delahaye, of Thibodaux; niece, 
Catherine Delahaye Dunn, of Houston, Texas; and nephew, Donald Delahaye, of 
Houston, Texas. 

He was preceded in death by his parents and by his brothers, Owen, Tillman and 
Varney. 

He was especially close to the Addis families of the late Joe and Miriam Myhand 
and of Leonard and Jocelyn Gauthreaux. Among his closest friends were Ralph and 
Tootie Hill of Baton Rouge. 
He was born June 15, 1926, a mile south of Brusly to Alfred and Lillian Hebert 
Delahaye. 
He was a 1944 graduate of Port Allen High School and later of Spencer Business 
College in Baton Rouge. He worked for Barnes Motor Supply in Baton Rouge as a 
bookkeeper until he entered the U.S. Army Jan. 24, 1954. He trained at Fort 
Jackson, S.C., before serving in communications in Heilbraun, West Germany, 
with the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. He then worked for the 
Baton Rouge construction firm of Clovis Henry Inc. before taking early 
retirement. 

Wilbert Funeral Home in Plaquemine is in charge of arrangements. 

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